“50 cents income, 51 cents expenses: Poor man. 50 cents income, 49 cents expenses: Rich man.” -- Mark Twain ^[1]^

Previously, we saw that the average paid iPhone app generates a little under \$6,000 and that you have a 50-50 chance of making something considerably less than that. Of course …

• Apparently no one came in to work on their weekend or day off in order to review my iPhone app. Someone get Steve Jobs on the phone! #
• Alien vs. Ninja http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_QC2fatXQ (Man, you just know they're going to ruin the book...) #
• Happy aphelion! [dead …

I took this shot Thursday night up at Mauna Kea. I thought I was doing really well with the photography, but when I got home and imported the images, all of them were blurred. There wasn't any wind, and I thought the scope was polar-aligned well enough, so for the …

My tutorial on the oft-confusing world of iPhone ad hoc distribution:

http://www.knowing.net/index.php/monotouch-ad-hoc-distribution-tutorial/

““Sir, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and my straw reaches across the room, I'll end up drinking your milkshake.”” ^[1]^

The biggest milkshake in the software world is Microsoft’s. For 20 years, if you wanted to make money by writing retail software, you did …

My most recent column for SD Times questions the rationality of Apple having a higher market capitalization that Microsoft.

“You cannot get rich selling your own time.” -- Scott Adams^[1]^

You can, however, make great fortunes selling things. When I was a kid, there was a girl in school who was heir to a pencil fortune; every time you took a standardized test and filled in one of those …

You may have noticed a dramatic shift in my online presence over the past few months. At the beginning of May, I more-or-less shut down Twitter, flushed the cache from my RSS reader, and stopped watching Red Sox games on MLB Live (well... mostly). This was in service to the …

• Christopher Walken performs Poker Face: [dead link] #
• 2 hours and my app hasn't been approved yet... ARGH!!!!!! #
• 20/20 vision is ability to discriminate two lines or pixels at 1 arcminute (1/60th of 1 degree). #things_I_never_knew #
• Hawaiians Poised For USA Coup d'Etat: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/06 …